Trivia / Major Crimes

• Actor-Shared Background: Dr. Morales is an immigrant from Uruguay, just like actor Jonathan Del Arco. He is also gay, like Del Arco.
• Dawson Casting: Sixteen-year-old Rusty is played by Graham Patrick Martin, who was 20 at the start of the series.
• Narrowed It Down to the Guy I Recognize: Deliberately invoked in "There's No Place Like Home". Why else cast Tim Conway, Doris Roberts, Marion Ross, Ron Glass, and Paul Dooley as former staffers of a 70's cop show living together in a retirement community? Subverted in that while they all conspired to murder the owner of the place, the police can't prove that any of them actually killed him. They all end up pleading to manslaughter.
• Poorly Disguised Pilot: Season 3's "Two Options" was meant to potentially spin off Fritz Howard into the lead of a new show focusing on the LAPD's Special Operations Bureau, which he would take over. The show wasn't picked up, but Fritz's storyline remained intact.
• Those Two Actors: Jamie Bamber, one of McDonnell's costars from Battlestar Galactica (2003) appeared in the episode "Open Line". As is often the case with this trope, he was playing someone the polar opposite of his previous role — a sleazy Jerkass, and their relationship was adversarial rather than friendly — she a detective, he a murder suspect.